On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:15:10 +0100 Josh <[email protected]> wrote: > > unfortunately, Skype needs to make some changes to their code > > before it will work with Growl 1.3 :( > > Are you saying that you knew that you broke your APIs? > > We didn't break out api's. Developers who used the isInstalled didn't follow our implementation page here: http://growl.info/documentation/developer/implementing-growl.php > I wonder if it isn't time to fork the old hg source base already and > get back a version of Growl that works and is open source. > > You can still access that without needing to fork it, but you can if you would like. However keep in mind that when we post 1.3 sources at some point, then you'd probably have a lot of changes that you would want to pull. 1.2.2 is also still available on the web site. However, this isn't going to solve the problem once sandboxing is introduced and apps need 1.3. We're working with as many application developers as we can to get them to update their applications as quickly as they can. We worked with whoever we found using the old frameworks which we knew were broken before the release as well. The problem is that the framework that's old was fixed a long time ago, so anyone using something older than 1.2.1 hasn't been keeping up with updating the framework. We've found applications using the 0.6 framework. Keep in mind that's about 6 years old now, maybe more. 1.2.2 will still work, and once the applications you use are updated you can use 1.3 fine. We're also working as quickly as we can to get the 1.3 framework done so that more applications will work with the workaround that always returns a yes for isInstalled. The Mac App Store transition required that we change to a .app, which is what broke this for some applications that did external checks beyond what we recommended, even beyond the isInstalled api. We're working with those application developers as well, but this is all going to take some time. These are growing pains, and for someone who apparently used and liked Growl, I'm going to have to ask you to just be patient while we make this transition over to the new world of the app store. The new world that a ton of people wanted, that Adobe, Dropbox and HP forced us to move to in order to get Growl validated by an external source that people trust, and that Apple is forcing us to move to with sandboxing essentially. Whether you want to be patient or not though, the fact remains that you can still use 1.2.2 and once the applications that you use update to work with 1.3, you can update to 1.3 and gain the features that we've put into it. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
